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He was at the door when Ned called, Varys. The eunuch turned back. How did Jon Arryn die?
他走到門邊時，奈德叫道：瓦里斯，太監回過頭。瓊恩·艾林是怎么死的？
I wondered when you would get around to that.
我還在想你什么時候才會問起這個。
Tell me.
告訴我。
The tears of Lys, they call it. A rare and costly thing, clear and sweet as water, and it leaves no trace. I begged Lord Arryn to use a taster, in this very room I begged him, but he would not hear of it. Only one who was less than a man would even think of such a thing, he told me.
那東西叫里斯之淚，非常罕見，價格高昂。其味道清甜如水，不留一點痕跡。當時我就在這個房間里懇求艾林大人叫人先嘗過食物，自己再吃，可他不肯聽，還告訴我：只有不配做人的東西才會想到這種事。
Ned had to know the rest. Who gave him the poison?
奈德急切地想知道事情始末。誰下的毒？
Some dear sweet friend who often shared meat and mead with him, no doubt. Oh, but which one? There were many such. Lord Arryn was a kindly, trusting man. The eunuch sighed. There was one boy. All he was, he owed Jon Arryn, but when the widow fled to the Eyrie with her household, he stayed in King's Landing and prospered.It always gladdens my heart to see the young rise in the world. The whip was in his voice again, every word a stroke. He must have cut a gallant figure in the tourney, him in his bright new armor, with those crescent moons on his cloak. A pity he died so untimely, before you could talk to him...
顯然是某個與他很親近，常和他一起同桌共餐的朋友，噢，但是哪一個呢？可疑的對象太多了。艾林大人是個和藹可親又值得信賴的人哪。太監嘆道：不過倒確有這么個孩子，他的一切都是瓊恩·艾林給的，但當艾林的寡婦帶著一家大小逃回鷹巢城時，他卻選擇了留在君臨，并很快飛黃騰達。看到年輕人有發展，我總是高興的。他的話鋒重歸銳利，每個字都像揮出的一鞭。他在比武大會上想必塑造了自己英勇的形象，穿著那身閃亮的新盔甲，還有那件彎月披風。只可惜他死不逢時，您還來不及問他就…
Ned felt half-poisoned himself. The squire, he said. Ser Hugh. Wheels within wheels within wheels. Ned's head was pounding. Why? Why now? Jon Arryn had been Hand for fourteen years. What was he doing that they had to kill him?
奈德覺得自己仿佛也給下了毒。原來是那個侍從，他說，修夫爵士。真是謎中有謎，錯綜復雜。奈德腦中怦怦作響。為什么？為什么選在這個時候？瓊恩·艾林已經當了十四年的首相，他到底做了什么，逼得他們非殺他不可？
背景介紹:
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